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NIHR DSE Award: Career Development for Researchers

The NIHR's DSE award is a postdoctoral funding prospect for early to mid-career researchers, lasting 12 to 24 months, aimed at enhancing skills for competitive grant applications, with specific funding limits.

Organization: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)

Type: Career development

Duration: 12, 18 or 24-months

Application deadline: November 4th,2025

About

The DSE award is a postdoctoral level funding opportunity. It supports early to mid-career researchers who want to gain specific skills and experience to underpin the next phase of their research career.

A DSE award must help you to develop the relevant and required skills to make a competitive NIHR personal award or NIHR research grant application. Applications to develop skills that are suited to research outside NIHR’s remit are not in scope for a DSE award.

Funding

- the salary of the award holder for up to 2 years
- training and development costs, including any related travel and subsistence, up to £5,000 per year FTE




- conference costs up to £1,000 per year FTE
- mentorship costs up to £3,000

Limits On What You Can Apply For

12 months

- £5,000 training costs
- £1,000 for conference or meeting costs
- up to £3,000 towards mentorship costs

18 months

- £7,500 training costs
- £1,500 for conference or meeting costs
- up to £3,000 towards mentorship costs

24 months

- £10,000 training costs
- £2,000 for conference or meeting costs
- up to £3,000 towards mentorship costs

Eligibility

- have completed any relevant pre-registration training (, if you are applying as a clinical academic)
- have a proposed English contracting organisation that is an HEI, NHS body, or other provider of health and/or care services
- hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted your thesis for examination at the time of application; you must have been awarded your PhD or MD by the time you start the award
- have not submitted a DSE application in the previous submission window

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